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In reply to the discussion: Universal Background Checks for firearms [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)39. Thats the problem with unrealistic thinking...
Enacting common sense legislation that would require 100% background checks...
The federal government was never given authority over purely intrastate commerce. Perhaps at the state level.
...waiting periods for purchases...
Ever heard the phrase "a right delayed is a right denied"?
...mag caps...
Forgetting VT are we?
...none of which takes away a persons "right" to "bear arms" it just makes the process to ownership take a little longer.
That's your opinion.
It is an amazing display of cognitive dissonance by propoents of the 2nd amendment that on one hand they claim "guns don't kill people, people kill people" yet they firmly believe drugs should be illegal...because apparently drugs just jump into a persons system and kills the person not because the person ingested/injected the drug. We have drug laws and heavy regulation because humans do terrifically unwise things with them an mostly just hurt themselves...not an entire class room of 8-9-10 yr olds.
Maybe you should take that up with a second amendment proponent that actually espouses those views then? I can't think of a one of us here on DU that supports the drug war.
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Giving Gun Worshipers another Amendment to further Sanctify their Religion is not an step forward.
stone space
Oct 2015
#3
Sounds like my experience with describing Chicago gun laws as Jim (large, raucous black bird).
Eleanors38
Oct 2015
#32
This is a reasonable proposal for this gun owner...Controllers? Not so much.
Eleanors38
Oct 2015
#27
I am skeptical because much of the rhetoric here and elsewhere is characterized...
Eleanors38
Oct 2015
#49
"...believe drugs should be illegal?" From The Anti-Ammosexual Handbook of Reality?
Eleanors38
Oct 2015
#33